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Answer by Raffa for locate command and globbing of shell

FirstlyThe locate command matches the provided pattern to its database. This is how it works. This means two things:Whatever you are trying to find has to be in its database and it is not enough that...

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Answer by steeldriver for locate command and globbing of shell

If you see my present working directory have no file/directory whosefull path name begins with /bin/bash. Hence, we should not bereceiving any output from locate /bin/bash*No, that's not how shell...

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locate command and globbing of shell

From locate man page:If --regex is not specified, PATTERNs can contain globbing characters. If any PATTERN contains no globbing characters, locate behaves as if the pattern were *PATTERN*.Now, see the...

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